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Nicole Loraux
The Children of Athena [EPUB ebook]
Athenian Ideas about Citizenship and the Division between the Sexes

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According to one myth, the first Athenian citizen was born from the earth after the sperm of a rejected lover, the god Hephaistos, dripped off the virgin goddess Athena’s leg and onto fertile soil. Henceforth Athenian citizens could claim to be truly indigenous to their city and to have divine origins that bypassed maternity. In these essays, the renowned French Hellenist Nicole Loraux examines the implication of this and other Greek origin myths as she explores how Athenians in the fifth century forged and maintained a collective identity.

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Nicole Loraux is Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.
Froma I. Zeitlin is Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at Princeton University.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 296 ● ISBN 9780691236834 ● File size 7.5 MB ● Translator Caroline Levine ● Publisher Princeton University Press ● City Princeton ● Country US ● Published 2021 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 7890280 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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